posy-sniffer

noun

Effeminate man

Meanings

nounposy-sniffer (plural posy-sniffers)

plural posy-sniffers

  1. Alternative form of posy sniffer.
    1. Effeminate man
      1 more example

      "I... just... can't... stand... having some... goddamned... posy-sniffer of a main-line Philadelphia closet queen... who inherited his fucking money... and doesn't have any fucking idea of what goes into making it... trying"--and here her teeth came together and stayed there, and the expression on her face went grim and bitter again--"to tell me how to run my own fucking business."

      2017, Max Edelman, Sex Swinging Foursome for the H, →ISBN
    2. Environmentalist

      Carl glared at the Greenpeace stall a few metres further along the mall. 'I wish we hadn't set up so close to the posy-sniffers.'

      1992, Elizabeth Knox, Treasure, →ISBN, page 116
      1 more example

      Beau pointed to the environmentalists and said, “Those posy-sniffers will never change— until they have no gas for their cars.”

      2010, Joe Barfield, Moon Shadow, →ISBN
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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